The One

M/UK

[hildegardavon]

Venus Genetrix

Roman Relief, 8-26 A.D., marble, 76×65×9 cm. Excavated in 1957 in the Villa of Tiberius near Sperlonga

Sperlonga, Museo Archeologico

[antigonick]

"Falling" wasn't the right term, precisely. It was a long process. She more correctly climbed into love, picked its locks, opened its gates, and breached its inner chamber.

—Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth, in The Locked Tomb

[escrevinhar]

[europeansculpture]

Herbert Strässer - Petite africaine. 1955

[sbsebek]

Carl Friedrich Seiffert, 

The Blue Grotto of Capri, 1860

[digitalfountains]

Stacy Bloom by Vas.tkh

[europeansculpture]

Dominique Pollès (*1945) - Dalia, 2009

[europeansculpture]

Jean-Léon GÉRÔME (1824-1904) - Buste de "Bellone"

[libraryofjuniper]

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days—three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain”.

Keats, in a letter to Fanny Brawne.

[fxhdskjz]

Gustave Doré

French, 1832-1883

Maenads in a Wood, 1879

[europeansculpture]

Josef THORAK (1889 - 1952) - Das licht, 1944

[besidebloomingirises]

Habōki (羽箒): feathers for brushing ash off the rim of the sunken hearth (Ro)

[mona-l1sa]

[quietude000]

[europeansculpture]

Peter MANDL (*1947)

[heksenkring]

Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Arc, 1949

[derangedrhythms]

She resorts to the magic comfort of the Tarot pack and shuffles the cards, lays them out, reads them, gathers them up with a sigh, shuffles them again, constantly constructing hypotheses about a future which is irreversible.

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from ‘The Lady of the House of Love’